hopefulSure, I've experienced similar major events on a MOO, using IRC, or in an IM chat room. But this is pretty awesome. Particularly the explosion as he was sworn in. My Facebook and Twitter Firefox plugins caused a flurry of toaster style notifications, all at the same time. That was pretty cool.
EDIT: Hey
runstaverun, there's a perfect LJ community for you that might just save your life: 
can_i_eat_this. 